Continuing to play with and test out the new Glowforge, and did a test run on some draftboard of this compass rose I drew a few years ago. I plan on making this a few levels deep and cutting it on some cherry or maple. I’m impressed with the ease of getting it from illustrator to the GF, as long as the file isn’t too big. I had planned on trying to learn Fusion 360 or Inkscape, but for now, my Illustrator skills seem to be doing the trick.

Nearly 2 hrs?!!
That’s the downside of the engraving. It is strange that it is so much faster to cut out an area than to do even a shallow engrave in the same space. I have been toying with the idea of doing stuff in two thinner layers and gluing them together afterwards. Cuts would go through both layers and engraves would just cut through the top one.